A heads-up for those of you who are looking forlornly at the long winter stretching ahead with no poetry classes – I bring good news! Auckland poet, Johanna Emeney, is going to run a weekend workshop in Lincoln on the last weekend in July. Hooray! At last, a class I can attend! It should be great fun, …
Publication opportunity for ekphrastic poems
A quick shout-out to those of you with ekphrastic poems looking for a home – Cordite Poetry Review has an issue with just that theme coming up, with a deadline of November 1st. (An ekphrastic poem is a poem based on, or triggered by, a piece of visual art. But you knew that, right?) Given …
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You know those poems with amazing titles
that suggest anything could be about to happen, anything might lie hidden behind the words about to leap forth – the soldiers of syntax marshalled on parade, the magicians of imagination warming up their wands – but which, like the contents of a Fabergé egg or a politician’s promise or Don Juan’s trousers add the …
Dispatches from the latest poetry class
Having loads of fun with this latest class. We’ve got a really good group, with roughly half of them being people I’ve not taught before. Which can be quite nerve-wracking to begin with – you’re never quite sure what will and what won’t work, whether there will be personality clashes, or whether the differences in …
Report on the Launch of Leaving the Red Zone
For those of you who didn’t make it, oh wow, you missed an incredible night. For starters, it was absolutely packed. Martin and Lisa (who own the joint) reckon we had over 200 people, and the waiting staff were working like mad things ferrying pizza and pints and beakers … incredible. I kept meaning to take some …
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A Dark Feathered Art 